Неделя в Шарме Week in Sharm

We flew to rest on Easter morning, we took the tour about a week before departure, we chose the hotel based on reviews. One of the main criteria was the famous Tyrannian coral, which tourists from all over the coast come to see.
"Tirana Island" is located near the airport, we were brought to the hotel one of the first. From the windows of the room you can clearly see the airport, the runway and the departing planes.
Upon arrival in Egypt, we refused to buy a stamp and asked at passport control to put a Sinai stamp on us. It gives the right to a two-week stay in Sinai + the island of St. Catherine, however, you will not leave it, with a stamp they are not even taken to the island of Tiran itself.

1. The rooms are clean, comfortable, classic Egyptian standard. We admired the tracks made of natural camel wool, could not resist and bought the same one in the Old Town : ). They cleaned every day, laid out figures from towels at no extra charge, and when we left a dollar, they even brought fresh flowers to the room. At first we were settled in the building closest to the reception and the restaurant, but the wild open-air hotel disco prevents us from sleeping there. After a night of torment, we asked to be moved to another room. Surprisingly, they moved immediately and did not even take extra money for this.
Upon arrival, one two-liter bottle of drinking water is put in the room, they don’t bring it anymore, so it’s problematic to rest with BB or HB, we thought for a long time and still took the “all inclusive”
2. The food is worse than it was in Taba and Hurghada, and rather monotonous, but you can eat. Every day chicken, beef and "on duty" meat from the chef, which is prepared in portions. For breakfast, a traditional omelette, melted cheese and one type of sausage. Little fruit was given. Dates a couple of times, melon once, often oranges and a guava every other day. Garnish with pasta, rice, couscous, vegetable salads - you won’t go hungry, children also have something to eat. In the afternoon from 16 o'clock they gave ice cream, french fries and hamburgers at the pool bar. On the beach in the snack bar, only local drinks and spirits. The bar was open from 10 am to 4 pm.
3. Beach. A bus goes to the beach from the hotel every half hour, but it takes only 5 minutes to walk, we rested in the top five on the first line, where it took longer to get to the sea through the hotel. Go back up the hill. Maybe not very pleasant, but it helps to crush the extra pounds from Egyptian food.
There is really a luxurious coral on the beach, diving is a pleasure. There are various parrot fish, moon fish, flocks of small coral fish of different colors and sizes. A couple of times we saw a huge Napoleon. At the slightest appearance of waves, rescuers hang out a black flag. We lost one day like that, and then we began to go to the wild beach, where they see you, but they don’t have the right to say anything. There were enough umbrellas and sun loungers for everyone, but the beach toilet worked very inconveniently, closed a couple of hours before the end of swimming . The animation on the beach is allegedly Spanish, but the Arabs are the Arabs.

4. Staff and service. The conversation is separate - some guys were polite and friendly, and, for example, a middle-aged bald man on towels was constantly rude, refused to change for fresh ones.
5. Where to go - there are taxis near the hotel, tourists go to Soho - a quarter with a shopping center and fountains, and to the Old Town - souvenirs and fruits. You can bargain with taxi drivers - they went to the Old City for $ 16 round trip. In the bazaars and shops you need to bargain well, boldly lowering the price by half. I advise you to buy leather bags there - a penny compared to Ukraine. I traded mine for $25.
Also on the market there are a lot of small tours = firms that carry on excursions for ridiculous money. Jerusalem, for example, cost $80. from a person.
MINUSES:
periodically the hotel is invaded by local residents - crowds of Arabs with the whole harem and children go for a weekend to rest. There are many of them, they are very noisy, they behave in a boorish way, do not hesitate to open their hands in relation to Russian girls. In the dining room, everything is scattered cleaner than locusts. On the first evening we came for dinner and I was simply shocked that for the first time in my practice of foreign holidays there was nothing to eat, because everything, pardon the expression, was consumed.
There was also an extremely unpleasant moment: in the morning I stood in line for an omelette, three Arab women followed me. The cook first put the omelette for them, and then for me, although I was standing in front of them. This is very, very unpleasant, and even more unpleasant to know that we are paying for their holidays, because during their weekends, ticket prices increase so that the locals can rest for a penny - this is the policy of today's Egypt.
Another minus is the shallow pool, in which you can’t swim properly. But he is big and goes to the bar.
And yet, they are very strict about bracelets = cut off immediately after check-out from the room and give a coupon for lunch.
On the whole we are satisfied with the holiday. We are unlikely to return to this hotel, but we love Egypt and will probably come there more than once.